One of the things I'm not loving about this year is how a lot of the kids are acting like
they're too grown-up to play things anymore. All they want to do is "hang out" and "talk"
at recess. And all they talk about now is who likes who and who is cute and isn't cute.
August doesn't bother about that stuff. He likes to play Four Square at recess, which I
love to play, too.
It was actually because I was playing Four Square with August that I found out about
the Plague. Apparently this is a "game" that's been going on since the beginning of the
year. Anyone who accidentally touches August has only thirty seconds to wash their
hands or find hand sanitizer before they catch the Plague. I'm not sure what happens to
you if you actually catch the Plague because nobody's touched August yet
—not
directly.
How I found out about this is that Maya Markowitz told me that the reason she won't
play Four Square with us at recess is that she doesn't want to catch the Plague. I was
like, "What's the Plague?" And she told me. I told Maya I thought that was really dumb
and she agreed, but she still wouldn't touch a ball that August just touched, not if she
could help it.
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